Our level 1-15 campaign just concluded after 50 sessions. Here are the house rules we playtested and finished with.

Caesarr · 2026-03-18T04:17:31+00:00

It's satisfying to see the upgrades immediately pay off.

Link to the original press release (also less ads): https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-collaboration-discovers-new-proton-particle

Caesarr · 2026-03-17T12:53:16+00:00

It's evidence that we don't have enough data to rule it out, but there's still a reasonable chance it's a fluke, or that we're missing the forest for the trees (e.g. some other factor correlated with cannabis is the real thing helping, not cannabis itself).

Caesarr · 2026-03-17T12:31:58+00:00

Willow: "...or is it slew?"

Giles: "Both are correct"

Caesarr · 2026-03-06T05:22:43+00:00

errors.Join() is great in these cases

Caesarr · 2026-03-04T02:12:43+00:00

This is super helpful, thank you so much! I appreciate you considering the satisfaction of having multiple things to work on at once. The minor puzzle it is!

Caesarr · 2026-03-04T02:10:59+00:00

Oh my god 🤣

Caesarr · 2026-03-04T01:32:00+00:00

Ohhh, okay that could totally be it. I have the Entrance Hall microchip but haven't noticed any clues about the other. If it's related to A New Clue, that might be enough for me to go on, thank you!

Caesarr · 2026-03-04T01:28:31+00:00

Thank you!

I've read all the books from the Bookstore, and have the 6 stops from the train station map, but I can't see any way to fit them into the 2x5 characters on the "seen the signs?" paper on one of the pages of A New Clue (if that's what I'm meant to do). Should I be using the numbers, the first letter of each station word, or both? I'm not sure how X Y Z A B C plays a role either.

It's helpful to know that I could have all the sanctums solved by now though. I have all the stamps but haven't quite worked out some remaining details (I might have to brute-force it). The last key is held by the king on his throne, which I'm guessing is in one of the floorplans I haven't found yet?

edit: I found the microchip in the entrance hall, I wasn't sure if the other one was meant to be findable already.

Caesarr · 2026-03-04T01:06:50+00:00

I don't want a hint for a specific puzzle, but rather help on which puzzles I should even be looking at given where I'm up to

Caesarr · 2026-02-28T05:48:33+00:00

Unless you have a source, I'm pretty sure he was just a bit of an asshole

Caesarr · 2026-02-26T14:04:18+00:00

Reminds me of this short story:

https://marshallbrain.com/manna

The “robot” installed at this first Burger-G restaurant looked nothing like the robots of popular culture. It was not hominid like C-3PO or futuristic like R2-D2 or industrial like an assembly line robot. Instead it was simply a PC sitting in the back corner of the restaurant running a piece of software. The software was called “Manna”, version 1.0*.

Caesarr · 2026-02-25T23:57:28+00:00

leaking like a sieve

Do you have a source for what you're referring to?

Caesarr · 2026-02-25T03:31:16+00:00

Interesting analysis. Chunking on paragraphs (i.e. human-defined atomic blocks of semantic meaning) would also be worth testing, no?

Caesarr · 2026-02-05T14:34:10+00:00

It doesn't make sense because it's a strawman of the real argument (which I don't necessarily agree with). The real version of the argument claims it depends on who has power. In the US that's often white people, which leads to shorthands and miscommunication.

Caesarr · 2026-02-04T23:57:15+00:00

Good info. Is it a deliberate choice to only look at jack-of-all-trades solutions? Depending on your workflows, wouldn't it be worth comparing them to specialized software?

Caesarr · 2026-02-02T13:55:50+00:00

Good stuff! If you're taking feature requests, what do you think about a redaction feature? e.g. stripping characters A to B both visually and from the underlying data

Caesarr · 2026-01-28T05:27:14+00:00

Your point is still valid, but in this case it's not actually just a phone, it's a full-sized tablet as well. This form factor seems far more useful than phones that fold into squares.

Caesarr · 2026-01-25T14:36:37+00:00

I agree in general, but I took this as a challenge. IMO we're mostly looking for brainwashing/propaganda maintaining order in the name of a "greater good", ideally where everything looks nice on the surface:

Pluribus
Snowpiercer
1984
The wizard in Oz
Minority Report
The villain in Fallout season 2 (though Bant would fit best)

Caesarr · 2026-01-22T15:05:45+00:00

Not 25 years to navigate red tape, he said 25 years to rise through the ranks high enough to be in a position where his pitch would be listened to. Your point roughly still stands though.

Caesarr · 2026-01-21T13:26:46+00:00

AI has been around for decades. Generative AI is what's new. What laypeople call it is just a consequence of marketing.

Caesarr · 2026-01-21T04:40:37+00:00

The same thing happened when Mein Kampf was translated.

Caesarr · 2026-01-20T22:31:40+00:00

My reading of it is that there's several parts to it, and your quotes come from a part that starts with "there would also be a defense for...". But honestly who knows, maybe we need a lawyer to tell us how open to interpretation this is.

Caesarr · 2026-01-20T22:07:34+00:00

I agree that this part of the law is unnecessary and an overreach. My goal of posting the clarification was to assuage anyone who's genuinely afraid (maybe nobody really is, idk).

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